PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

The Major causes of deaths in the under 5 years of age but outside neonatal period globally are pneumonia, malaria and injuries. These children are very critical and need a specialized team to manage them.

PICU( paediatric intensive care unit) is a critical care unit which takes care of very sick children from birth to 16 years of age . The Nairobi hospital Launched the paediatric intensive care unit and the paediatric high dependency unit on 15 the July 2023.The Nairobi Hospital PICU provides state of art paediatric critical care services which offers round-the-clock specialized medical, surgical and nursing care services, access to latest technology and up-to-date medications for managing serious life-threatening conditions in children .The unit has a capacity to cover a broad range of critical illnesses and/or complex diseases in infants, children and adolescents.? We are recognized as the only few paediatric critical care service providers in the region.The unit has Our paediatric critical care unit is staffed by highly skilled nurses, paediatric intensivists and other ancillary and multidisciplinary specialists who are dedicated to provide high level compassionate care.